Re: [RFC] Arch option to touch newly allocated pages

Andrew Morton (akpm@zip.com.au)
Thu, 07 Mar 2002 11:18:58 -0800


Daniel Phillips wrote:
>
> a GFP flag that says 'fail if this looks hard to get'.

Something like that would provide a solution to the
readahead thrashing problem.

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